Urban Radar: Trailer

Urban Radar is a podcast series brought to you by Sheffield Urbanism, which reflects on current events and emerging trends through the lens of cities and urban life. Drawing on the unique range of expertise in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Sheffield, UK, we place urban dynamics at the centre of contemporary global affairs.

Sheffield Urbanism is a joint initiative led by the Urban Institute and School of Geography & Planning at the University of Sheffield.

In this trailer, Tom and Beth introduce the Urban Radar podcast, its format and key questions overarching the series:

• How can urban research help to build solidarity and a sense of belonging in the face of rising individualism, consumerism, and capital accumulation?
• How can we foster place-based innovation to harness technological developments as tools to address inequalities between different groups within and across urban areas? 
• What potential does urban political mobilisation have to transform power relations in a world characterised by authoritarianism and oligarchy? And what are its limits?
• Whose knowledge and expertise - human, non-human and artificial - gets to determine the way we live together in urban space?
• How can and do urban communities re-imagine cities as spaces of environmental justice and sustainable inhabitation?